Just rewatched the first 6 Rounds . . .

Watching the first four rounds, I have a difficult time scoring any of those for Gennady. I mean, the first round was a feel out round, close but Canelo laned the cleaner punches.

Round 2, Clear Canelo round. Round 3 another clear Canelo round. Round 4, don't see how you can give this round to G. When Canelo went to the ropes, G didn't land anything, Canelo landed the better punches in the round. Canelo was boxing beautifully in this round. After the 4th, Abel Sanchez tells G to feint and motions for him to throw a punch to the body when Canelo gets to the ropes, suggesting that G wasn't doing that in the 4th, which he wasn't.

Re-watching it I have Canelo up 40-36 after 4 rounds, and I challenge anybody to argue otherwise. G landed nothing noteworthy in the 4th round, Canelo was making him miss, and coming back with quality punches.

Now lets go to the 5th round, Canelo once again was having his way with G for the first 2 minutes of the round. G would get a shot here or there, but Canelo was just beating him to the punch, landing the harder punches. Then G appeared to get in a uppercut to the chest / neck area of Canelo with 1:08 left in the round. Canelo goes back to the ropes, and G lands a pretty good jab then a straight right that clips Canelo, Canelo counters with a hard straight right hand, then with 1:00 left in the round G lands that big right hand with about a minute left in the 5th round. That may have been G's best punch of the fight.

That's when the fight started heating up, but for the first half of the 5th, like the preceding 4 rounds, Canelo was having his way with G. I've seen a lot of people giving G the 4th round, but I Just don't see it.

And even the 5th, G had those moments with Canelo on the ropes, those were the biggest punches of the round, but still I thought the overall work rate of Canelo in the 5th for the majority of that round. That said, I can see scoring the 5th for G with those momentum-turning punches. He finally landed a big punch on Canelo, he did in the 5th what he couldn't do in the 4th.

The point here is that while G landed those bombs in the 5th, it wasn't like G dominated the 5th. It was stil an extremely close round, with G winning it because of that moment with about a minute left in the round. If G didn't land that huge right hand, I probably give the round to Canelo.

Many people are acting like G dominated rounds 4-9 it's complete fantasty. Canelo won the 4th, it was close but he landed the better punches. G couldn't land anything in the 4th with Canelo on the ropes. It wasn't until a minute left in the 5th that G turned the tide with those punches. I challenge anybody who scored the 4th round to G to rewatch it. Even with G getting the 5th round, I have it 49-46 Canelo after 5 rounds.

Now in the 6th round, G started to assert himself, G came out and backed Canelo up to the ropes, landed some straight right hands. Canelo fired back with some combos, and Canelo did the hard uppercut. This was another close round, but I do think G won this round.

It's not like rounds 5 and 6 were completely dominated by Gennady or anything, but yeah sure he won those rounds by stalking Canelo getting him back in the ropes and landing the better punches in these rounds.

Now before we get into the second half of the fight, I just want to say that I have Canelo winning the first 4 rounds and Gennady winning 5 and 6. I really want to hear from Gennady fans on this, specifically regarding the 4th round that many seem to just have given to Gennady. Rounds 3 and 4 are swing rounds. Maybe a lot of people just gave G the 4th seeing Canelo on the ropes, but G didn't land anything of note in that round. I urge Triple G fans to take another look at the 4th round and really be honest about who deserved to win that round. If you give Canelo the first 4 rounds and the last 3 that's 7 rounds to Canelo. And I haven't even gone through rounds 7-9 yet.

 

Eyes wide open. Canelo swept the first four 4 rounds, and won the last 3 rounds. (maybe one other round, will have to take a look at 7-9 again) I challenge you to argue otherwise. 7-5 or 8-4 Canelo.

 

And Chavez Sr "Canelo won clearly" lmao.

 

You know, it's not a popularity contest. I am happy to be in the minority. I don't subscribe to group think. People suffer from confirmation bias. The bottom line is you don't want to discuss the rounds, like round 4. You just want to pretend G won. He didn't land anything. Show me G's best punches in the 4th, provide timestamps. I'll be waiting.

 

How did you have it ellerbe? I'd be interested to hear your card.